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Paranoia is about two things: an understanding that entire groups of people
know something you don't, and a desire to raid those precious secrets while
undermining the authority and power those secrets have granted, because
unseen forces are of course out to get you. You're fighting back, you see,
and spreading information is the best way to do it.
Typically, the closer to legitimate a target is, the easier a target it is.
And, as we all know, nobody but nobody screws Joe Average like governmental
inefficiency. It's not a huge leap from "they don't care and I got lost in
the paperwork" to "they're obviously out to foil my every plan", and most
governments are paranoid enough themselves to add to the fun and make things
worse, spending more than they should on everything from wiretaps to press
conferences, and creating clandestine "black chambers" and "puzzle palaces",
slowly being driven by the very people that fear them into becoming the
nefarious cults everyone makes them out to be. Defense situations help,
but when a catalyst like a cold war or a war on scary things is in play,
they aren't really necessary. And inefficiency will never really dissappear;
not as long as "leadership skills" and "personality" are more likely to get
you elected to a position, even a lowly one, than actual skill and ability.
In short, it's all the DMV's fault.
Of course, I'm not just gonna show you run-of-the-mill I-just-lost-my-job-
and-you-have-to-hear-about-it inanity. Oh no. I promise bottom of the barrel,
I deliver. Herein, then, is what the internet REALLY thinks about the most
likely people to be reffered to simply as "THEM".
Boo.
The Rockefeller Family, Carnegie Foundation, Drug Manufacturers,
and the Bird Flu that loves them
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
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